More Corporate Morons...
(September 10, 2001)

As a personal disclaimer here, I actually own stock in FoMoCo. Sadly, when I attempt to contact investor relations to ask them why the sue everyone they fairly roundly ignore me. Given, I don't have thousands of shares, but I still have bought in, so I deserve a response as much as the wealthy guy down the street. As such, I think it is in my best interest to try and grab my company by the, well you know, and force a response.

How do you spell ridiculous amounts of litigation and a company run by morons?

F-O-R-D

Geez.... what can these jokers be thinking? Rather than invest money into R&D and creating a better auto to help out their car line (They seem solid in the truck and SUV models for now....) these asses continue their lawsuits against tech savvy consumers and Internet entrepreneurs throughout the world.

Ford has recently filed suit again. This time the offender is 2600.com and its publisher Eric Corley. The alleged offense this time: registering an unflattering domain and pointing it at Ford.com.

So what did Ford do?

Send a letter asking the link to be removed? Nope.

Maybe a call to ask the same? Nope.

Well at least a simple cease-and-desist letter, right? No way..... This is FORD people.... they like to sue everyone........

So they did. They filed suit in Dearborn, Michigan and hauled 2600.com into court.

Regardless of the outcome of the case Ford needs to pop its head from its rear and start worrying about cars and leave the Internet alone. They sued Hans Rekestad who created a site named classicvolvos.com to sell collectors cars and parts online. They sued several folks who posted sites like jaguarcenter.com (about cats) and jaguarenthusiastsclub.com (more cats) who created sites with absolutely nothing to do with Ford. Many of the sites just gave up their pages rather than fight a conglomerate with unlimited funds.

So for today my big FU goes out to the Ford Motor Company and the idiots who run it. Maybe they can sue me next.

Links to more information:
2600.com on the story
ClassicVolvo.com lawsuit info
More on ClassicVolvo.com
Much, much, more on Ford lawsuits